Peen tong or pian tang (Chinese: 片糖; pinyin: piàntáng; Jyutping: pin3 tong4; Cantonese Yale: pintòng) and wong tong (Chinese: 黃糖; pinyin: huángtáng; Jyutping: wong4 tong4; Cantonese Yale: wòngtòng),[1] is a Chinese brown sugar and sugar candy that is used in various Chinese desserts and also consumed alone as a snack.[2][3][4] In China, it is sold in slab or brick form in one-pound packages, and occasionally as a bulk food item.[2][3][5]
Peen tong is used as an ingredient in desserts, sauces and sweet soups.[1] Peen tong is sometimes used as an ingredient in nian gao, whereby the slab of peen tong is scraped and the resultant shavings are used in the dish.[3][6][5] Another method for its use in nian gao is to dissolve the peen tong in water, which is less time-consuming compared to scraping it.[3][6] It is used as an ingredient in jiandui (Chinese: 煎堆; pinyin: jiānduī; Cantonese Yale: jīndēui), a sesame ball prepared using glutinous rice flour.[7] Peen tong is also used in haptou wu (Chinese: 合桃糊; pinyin: hétáo hú; Jyutping: hap6 tou4 wu2; Cantonese Yale: hahptòu wú), a sweet Chinese walnut soup.[8]
